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Date:      Wed, 26 May 1999 13:58:02 -0500
From:      dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org>
To:        Stuart Henderson <stuart@eclipse.net.uk>
Cc:        OCD Support <support@kawartha.com>, Mitch Vincent <cygone@zoomnet.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Command-line Adduser?
Message-ID:  <19990526135802.U11343@dannyland.org>
In-Reply-To: <37406FD7.EA96EEC2@eclipse.net.uk>; from Stuart Henderson on Mon, May 17, 1999 at 08:36:55PM %2B0100
References:  <003701bea096$75bcd240$0200000a@cygone.zoomnet.net> <37406815.427C73D0@eclipse.net.uk> <37406DC1.F7E66088@kawartha.com> <37406FD7.EA96EEC2@eclipse.net.uk>

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On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 08:36:55PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > If this is of no help, let me know.. we have a quick perl script 
> > here I wrote quite some time ago to do this.. 
> 
> adduser is itself a perl script, it just uses 'pw' to do the work. 
> that's probably why -batch just returns,

adduser was written before pw, and does things the hard and scary way.  Don't
use adduser, use pw, or write your own.  Once things settle here at the new
job I'll be releasing a script that calls pw.

-danny

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